[Tip] Enable or Disable Windows 11 Style Menus and UI in Chrome and Edge

Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 11 comes with new redesigned rounded UI and visual effects. The new UI present in Windows 11 is called Fluent design UI which features acrylic material UI elements along with translucent blur and glass transparency effects. Windows 11 displays menus using rounded corners, larger fonts and new shadow effects in background.

Now modern web browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have started adopting Windows 11 design styles. Since Microsoft Edge web browser comes bundled/preinstalled with Windows 11, Microsoft has already enabled native Windows 11 style menus and other UI elements in Edge. If you use Microsoft Edge browser in other Windows versions such as Windows 10, you’ll also notice some UI changes such as larger menus, new highlighting style, etc.

Google Chrome team has also started implementing Windows 11 design styles in Chrome browser but at the moment, these UI improvements are disabled by default and interested users need to manually activate and enable Windows 11 style changes by modifying a hidden preference/flag.

Both web browsers Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are based on same Chromium engine, that’s why both provide a built-in flag to enable or disable Windows 11 UI changes in the browser window.

You can enable or disable Windows 11 style menus and UI elements in Chrome and Edge by changing the secret flag which we are going to share in this tutorial.

If you like Windows 11 UI style and want to enable those UI elements and effects in Chrome and Edge browsers, following steps will help you. Similarly, if you don’t like Windows 11 style changes in both browsers, you can use following steps to disable the UI effects:

Enable or Disable Windows 11 Style Menus and UI Effects in Google Chrome

1. Open Google Chrome web browser and type chrome://flags/ in address bar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration page.

2. Now type windows 11 in the “Search flags” box.

You’ll get following option:

3. To enable new Windows 11 style redesigned menus and UI in Chrome, select Enabled – All Windows Versions from the drop-down box for above mentioned option.

To disable new Windows 11 style menus and UI in Chrome, select Disabled from the drop-down box for above mentioned option.

4. Google Chrome will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Relaunch now” button to restart Google Chrome.

That’s it. You have successfully enabled/disabled new Windows 11 style visual updates in Chrome.

Enable or Disable Windows 11 Style Menus and UI Effects in Microsoft Edge

1. Open Microsoft Edge web browser and type edge://flags/ in address bar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration page.

2. Now type windows 11 in the “Search flags” box.

It’ll directly go to following option:

3. To enable new Windows 11 style redesigned menus and UI in Edge, select Enabled from the drop-down box for above mentioned option.

To disable new Windows 11 style menus and UI in Edge, select Disabled from the drop-down box for above mentioned option.

4. Microsoft Edge will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Restart” button to restart Microsoft Edge.

That’s it. You have successfully enabled/disabled Windows 11 style visual updates in Microsoft Edge.

Also Check:

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